Quotes About Options

God created strategy by allowing choice,

Cualquier cliente puede tener un coche pintado del color que quiera, siempre que sea negro».

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

But McNamara knew more than the actual facts—he also knew the hypothetical ones. When you talked with him, you realized that he had already played out in his head the relevant details for every conceivable option and scenario.

Wherever you can find a honeydew melon, you can find other melons. All other melons are better. There is really no point to having a honeydew melon under any circumstances whatsoever.

The duty of the historian," Gordon Craig has reminded us, "is to restore to the past the options it once had." Craig also pointed out that this is an appropriate way to teach history and to make it memorable.

Yet in a country with one hundred types of toothpaste on supermarket shelves, schools still follow a one-size-fits-all educational model.

And then I had to decide if I wanted shoes that kicked ass, or were good for ass-kickin', on account of there's a difference.

Death now or death later, that was the real question.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Both business and leisure travellers are enjoying unprecedented levels of choice.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

I didn't become interested in derivatives until 1982, 1983.

So many people struggle to have children and it's not unusual to go down a slightly different path if you need to.

I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.

When you take stock, there are so many more choices and points of view that are necessary.